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In any given Wikipedia article, there are two main links you'll come across:

Blue text represents linked text. For the most part, these links will bring a reader from one Wikipedia article to another.

For example: If you were reading about Chemistry Sets but then realized what you actually wanted to be reading about were other educational toys, you could click the "Educational Toy" blue link (see image) and follow it to that Wikipedia page.

Red text is a link that does not yet exist as a Wikipedia article. When that article is created, that red link will automatically be updated to a blue one. See all those red links in the example below?

Add links and categories to your article! An article on Wikipedia that does not link to any other article on Wikipedia is called an orphan, and cannot be easily found by other editors.

Adding a link using the VisualEditor

Select "Edit" on the article and then highlight the word or phrase you want to link. In the example below, the word is "copper".

Then, click the link icon above (it looks like a paperclip). This will open up a list of Wikipedia articles related to your highlighted term.

Scroll through the list until you find the article that you want to link to. Select that article. The word you highlighted should now be blue.